How to Use abscond in a Sentence

abscond

verb

• The suspect absconded to Canada.
• Several prisoners absconded from the jail.
• We were absconded from such concerns, from feeding fires and mouths.
  — J.p. Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
• Even fraudsters holding billions in crypto won’t blush at the chance to abscond with a little more fiat.
  — Ben McKenzie, The New Republic, 10 Mar. 2022
• Clients have taken to social media ever since to claim the death and loss of the password were staged in an attempt to abscond with their digital coin.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 17 Dec. 2019
• Belly and Conrad have absconded to the beach house in winter, alone together for the first time in their favorite place.
  — Lucy Feldman, Time, 5 July 2023
• No, Spicer hadn't jumped ship, though he could be forgiven from absconding from the press grilling that awaited.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 11 May 2017
• Each woman took her cheery placard and absconded to a large back table, where one by one their orders were delivered.
  — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 26 Aug. 2019
• The pilot is purposefully opaque about what Sky absconded with.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 18 June 2019
• Instinctively absconding with the girl and heading out on the lam, the new fugitive and her willing charge forge deep bonds beyond a legal framework.
  — Ben Croll, Variety, 24 Mar. 2023
• The Batman seems to abscond from this, building up a Gotham that’s already knee deep in classic staples.
  — Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 1 Mar. 2022
• In one common scheme, called a rug pull, investors deposit money into a smart contract only for its creators to abscond with the funds.
  — Alexander Osipovich, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2022
• What that means in practice is parents seeking custody of their children only need to abscond with the kids to a new location and deny the other parent access.
  — Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2020
• He had been implicated in a criminal affair and had to abscond, sort of betraying his closest friend.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 9 Sep. 2021
• DeFi projects are frequently run by anonymous teams that sometimes abscond with investors’ funds in scams known as rug pulls.
  — Alexander Osipovich, WSJ, 17 July 2021
• Husqvarna’s device sounds an alarm if someone tries to abscond with the mower and has a GPS device built in.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 19 July 2022
• Thirty-five others chose not to abscond during the attack, authorities said.
  — Nimi Princewill, CNN, 6 Apr. 2021
• The murder defendant who absconded in the middle of his trial last fall couldn't even get sentenced without another strange wrinkle to his case.
  — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2018
• The Milwaukee man who absconded from his murder trial two days before a jury convicted him now faces new charges of bail jumping.
  — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Oct. 2017
• The man, however, was eventually caught absconding from parole and was sentenced to another five years in prison.
  — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 7 Apr. 2023
• The white middle class absconded to the suburbs in droves, seriously depleting a once munificent tax base.
  — Evan Kindley, The New Republic, 1 Aug. 2023
• His father, who was convicted and placed on probation, has since absconded and is currently a fugitive.
  — Steve Miletich, The Seattle Times, 9 July 2018
• Everyone knows full well that Michael has left their kids with the nanny to abscond to whatever King Street haunt tickles his fancy.
  — Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2021
• Some allege that this is merely a way for their competitors to abscond with valuable intellectual property.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 18 Nov. 2019
• A few still believe that the assistant Yale professor absconded with Incan gold — even though there is no evidence of this.
  — David Holahan, courant.com, 15 Aug. 2017
• In some cases, the ICOs amounted to blatant scams where the organizers promptly absconded with the money.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 1 May 2018
• So the hospital is detaining him until the bill is paid — a common practice in African medical centers to ensure that debtors don’t abscond.
  — Arlette Bashizi, Washington Post, 5 July 2023
• The Qarmatians were said to have killed scores of pilgrims and absconded with the black stone of the Kaaba—which Muslims believed was sent down from heaven.
  — Ken Chitwood, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Apr. 2020
• Just 2 percent of participants absconded during the process.
  — NBC News, 24 June 2018
• Unfortunately, a quartet of conveniently inept thieves have set their sights on the place, hoping to abscond with a mountain of cash hidden therein.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 10 May 2018

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024